i´m also did not the upgrade, because X1 is only a vst plug in collection for my cubase 6.
but i do not want miss the px-64 and vx-64.

jan

Not expanding to Expanded either...

I figure I'll stay away from the latest and the greatest for a while and just be happy with what I have. 

Peace

I haven't upgraded. I don't find the bang vs. the bucks to be worth it.

 
I didn't want to upgrade but an older boy made me do it.

SteveStrummerUK


 
I didn't want to upgrade but an older boy made me do it.

I only "suggested" you do it.  The fact that I had a riding crop in my hand should've made no difference at all.

I haven't as of yet, there is really nothing in Expanded that interests me.

Dan

I was drinking Tenants, now I'm drinking Tenants Extra.

I Didn't. I wish cakewalk would work on the audio side a little, instead of midi, loops and instrument.

Qwerty69


I downgraded to X1 when it came out to replace 8.5. I've spent the intervening time bug-hunting in X1 and have gone back to 8.5.3 which works reasonably well.

I've recently gone down the Studio One v2 path - looks pretty wonderful. Think I'll be jumping off the good ship Cakewalk sooner rather than later.

To my way of thinking Expanded was a marketing gimmick to allow Cakewalk to get extra revenue from the installed base by allowing third party vendors to sell stuff into the closed "ProChannel" shop. I found this direction, (and X1 generally), incredibly appalling. Rather than focusing on audio manipulation enhancements, it is turning more and more into a pro-sumer loop toy.

Guess I feel like I've grown out of it...

Q.

I'm definitely on the fence as well and a little skeptical of the path Cakewalk seems to be headed down.  I didn't upgrade as I'm waiting to see if Cakewalk makes some SERIOUS progress w/ X2 (or whatever it will be called) before I continue to shell out money.  I've sworn by Cakewalk since the Pro Audio days but if the next version is not a major leap forward, for the first time, I'll definitely be moving on to other solutions.  There's just too many other quality options out there to settle nowadays.

I don't even own X1, so I certainly didn't get Expander, but I was thinking about getting it all last week. However, now that S1 2.0 is out I think I will give that one a try. 

I never really liked that a lot of the stuff that comes with Sonar was never really finished, as if quantity is more important then quality. Sonar can do a lot, but nothing is really perfect. Now I won't say S1 is perfect (just look at their forum), but at least it seems to be a lean machine that does what it should do. 

I do appreciate that CW tried to do something new with X1, but the bad reports kept me from getting it and even after the release of X1c I don't trust it... And now suddenly they released Expanded, while a lot of people are still having problems with X1 itself...? Why don't they sort out all problems first and add stuff (in free upgrades) that people really want? Now you get yet another bunch of plugins that cost almost as much as a complete upgrade to X1. Releasing a new version every year was a bit too much (obviously) but this new way of releasing new versions NOT as new versions but as some sort of addon payware upgrade is very confusing imho. If I buy a new version of a DAW I'd like to buy the latest version But when I buy X1 now, I won't have the latest version unless I buy some more addons...? I think that the release of Expanded was the opposite of an incentive to get X1 after all. I don't like all those possible versions and addons and Suites and Elite packs and whatnot. It's getting way too compliceted and messy.

Mod Bod

I have expanded to Reaper

+1

Another +1. 

I've reverted back to Reaper and I appreciate it even more now.
I mostly just use X1 if I need to do some time stretching of an audio file as I really like the Izotope Radius algorithms.

I'll keep my eye on future Sonar updates though.

That's what I was "just saying" around post 20? Still exact opposite, I don't feel so, and obviously a lot of others aren't happy with just X1c, when they are trying to sell us other products, anyone hear anything about upcoming fixes in a while?

No way am I paying to upgrade to Producer, then paying again to get Expanded, just to get drag and replace for plugins. The rest is of no interest and that particular feature should have been in X1 from the start,.

I haven't upgraded either I would like the easy synth replace but I feel it should have been implemented from the the start I don't need or want the soundcloud  feature and the xml feature should be import and export capable.As for the prochannel addons it seems to me as to others that it's simply an attempt to lock users into paying for plugins that can't be used in any other program  as I see it if I have a prochannel strip without the addons I would probably be less inclined to use it as it wouldn't be full featured it would in effect be prochannel lite.I would prefer spending money on 3rd party plugins the only reason to use prochannel would be if it used far less resources than a combination of 3rd party plugins and if it had a superior sound which is something I'm less than convinced of.There are lots of niggles about X1 e.g. emagic screensets from  more than a decade ago are eminently superior in their implementation than Sonar's version.For a start they work flawlessly and you get 99 per project if I set up a screenset in Logic it is recalled instantly and in the exact way it was saved every time. It doesn't work like that for me in X1c  in fact the much vaunted workflow in X1 leaves me feeling that maybe  presonus S1 might be more useful to me .This upgrade feels like a mild fleecing to me to put it mildly.I think it would be better if cakewalk offered  a top of the line version with all the bells and whistles with all extra upgrades(like prochannel proprietary modules) for free i.e. until the next major version. I paid for the top version and within months I'm asked to pay more  for the even more top version I don't like that way of doing business.I'm sure they could really care less though because they have my money now and the marketing will always hook some new users.

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